Question: How did they measure years in the Bible? Did the Old Testament use a 12-month calendar to measure the ages of the patriarchs? - Elaine Johnson, Suffolk, Va. Answer: As far back as ...

We read about the patriarchs in Genesis 12-50, and many later authors of books from the Old and New Testament mention them again. Estimates place the patriarchal age (the period Abraham ...

Recently, we looked at individual places and people God “chose” in the Old Testament ... to his love for the patriarchs (Deut. 4:37, 10:15). Later, in the New Testament, Israel’s election ...

The Bible says that Abraham, along with other patriarchs of Judaism and Christianity ... explains Choon-Leong Seow, professor of Old Testament language and literature at Princeton Theological ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church also has this to say in No. 61: “The patriarchs, prophets, and certain other Old Testament figures have been and always will be honored as saints in all the ...